Testimony Software - Technical Details

Testimony Software is a standards-based system. It uses XML and Quicktime to store and manipulate its code and content.

This means you can create your content is a wide variety of formats and use them in Testimony Software at no extra cost to you! It also means you can create your content in the format best suited to the content.

Other systems will force you to use their proprietary format and that means you have to pay the cost of converting your content and ideas to suit them.

Using Quicktime, means that Testimony Software can display/use:

1. Content Formats

3DMF, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AIFF, AMC, AMR, Animated GIF, AU, Audio CD Data, AVI, BMP, Cubic VR, DLS, DV, FlashPix*, FLC, GIF, GSM, JPEG 2000 (Mac OS X), JPEG/JFIF, Karaoke, MacPaint, Macromedia Flash 5, MIDI, MPEG-1, MP3(MPEG-1, Layer 3), M3U(MP3 Playlist files), MPEG-2**, MPEG-4, M4A, M4B, M4P, PDF, Photoshop*, PICS, PICT, PLS, PNG, QCP, QuickTime Image File, QuickTime Movie, SD2 (SoundDesigner 2), SDP, SDV, SF2 (SoundFont 2), SGI, SMIL, System 7 Sound, Targa, Text, TIFF*, TIFF Fax, VDU (Sony Video Disk Unit), Virtual Reality (VR), Wave

2. Video Codecs

3. Audio Codecs

24-bit integer, 32-bit floating point, 32-bit integer, 64-bit floating point, AAC (MPEG-4 Audio), ALaw 2:1, AMR Narrowband, IMA 4:1, MACE 3:1, MACE 6:1, MS ADPCM (decode only), QDesign Music 2, Qualcomm PureVoice (QCELP), ULaw 2:1

For more detailed information, please read the Quicktime specifications [read the Quicktime specifications or browse the Quicktime web site]. All of this comes at no extra cost to you, because Testimony Software uses the Quicktime architecture!

TLSTranscription, the Testimony Software authoring tool, is written in RealBasic [go to RealBasic web site]. Realbasic is a simple environment so that if you need to customize the authorign toolkit, it can be done simply and cheaply. Any competent programmer is able to use RealBasic. Using RealBasic means we can deliver TLSTranscription on Macintosh, Windows and Linux environments.

The Testimony Software browser is written in JavaScript and currently only runs successfully when your users use the free Firefox browser. Others browsers will be added as they are tested.